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Our team has a MakerBot Replicator 2 that we got from a Donorschoose grant, and a Cube Ekocycle that we got from a FIRST grant - and I am seriously considering replacing them both with a Prusa I3 from kit.

The MakerBot has been expensive to keep repaired because of the proprietary nature of the components - and the Ekocycle is about to be extremely expensive to continue using because of the high cost of the filament.

We have no experience assembling a printer, but have done a good bit of research, and definitely feel like we can easily handle it. I am looking forward to gaining the experience into the "inner workings" of the machine so we can tweak and diagnose it ourselves...and even more looking forward to "hardware-type" replacement parts rather than the costly model-specific items we deal with currently.